The La Renaissance Banquet & Conference Center in East Windsor is headed to a foreclosure auction at the end of April.

But the 27,500-square-foot hall on eight acres off Prospect Hill Road was listed for sale last week with an asking price of $3.97 million.

The asking price is above the property's appraised value of $3.3 million as of last fall, according to court documents.

It's not unusual that a property owner facing a foreclosure auction might try to sell the property before a forced sale. What is unusual in this case is that the listing was made just a few weeks before the April 27 sale date, brokers said Wednesday.

Gus Constantine, a Glastonbury lawyer overseeing the auction, said Wednesday that the auction was still going forward, as of today.

La Renaissance's web site is still up. But a call to the number listed on the site yielded a recording that the number was no longer in service.

The listing, by Chozick Realty, Inc. of Hartford, states: "La Renaissance offers an outstanding and unique opportunity to further expand the well known name of La Renaissance or for further development of this very diverse location."

The listing notes that La Renaissance is directly across Route 5 from a new, 200,000-square-foot Walmart Supercenter.

Chozick Realty declined comment Wednesday on the timing of the listing and auction.